MOBI Virtual Machine best practices - HeritageNetwork/Regional_SDM GitHub Wiki

For lack of a better place, here's a list of best practices for users on Mobi01. Please add and edit as you see fit.

  1. Set up all temp files to write to the swap disk, D:, for these reasons:

    • There very little space on C:, especially considering the size of files we work with. We’ve been burned a few times with C running out of space. Then nobody goes anywhere, fast.
    • D: is designed as a drive for faster swapping (and in bigger packets) and should improve the speed of your work.
    • there are instructions for doing this here: https://github.com/HeritageNetwork/Regional_SDM/wiki/User-Customizations

  2. Again, because C: fills up with all our use, periodically clean out these two folders:

    • C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Esri/LocalWorker
    • C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Esri/Local Caches
    • Obviously do it when you don’t have any ESRI products running!

  3. Log out from the MOBI VM, instead of disconnecting, when done, if you aren't continuing processes while disconnected.

  4. Only work on one instance of the Virtual Machine per user account. Check the Task Manager Window to ensure you haven't accidentally logged in to the machine twice, and close the duplicate connection if needed.

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